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Iraq is working on a plan to build nuclear reactors in face of widespread blackouts that have sparked social unrest, Bloomberg reported on 8 June. Despite being OPEC’s second biggest oil producer, Iraq is suffering from power shortages and insufficient investment in ageing plants, and needs to meet an expected 50% jump in demand by the end of the decade. Building NPPs could help to close the supply gap.

Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiraq-looks-to-revive-its-nuclear-programme-8822664

French nuclear fuel cycle company Orano has been authorised to begin dismantling the Georges Besse diffusion enrichment plant at the Tricastin complex in southeastern France. The plant was shut down in June 2012 following 33 years of service and was replaced by the centrifuge-based Georges Besse II plant.

Date: Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Orano-to-start-dismantling-Georges-Besse-enrichmen

US Centrus Energy Corp (formerly known as USEC) announced on 2 October that it had been awarded a $15 million work authorisation by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) to prepare the K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for demolition. Centrus has leased K-1600 - the former K-25 site -  from the DOE since 2002 to test and demonstrate its uranium enrichment technology. The company has also been conducting centrifuge manufacturing, engineering and design at its own nearby Technology and Manufacturing Centre (TMC) in south Oak Ridge, at the former Boeing plant.

Date: Friday, 05 October 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-centrus-15m-for-decommissioning-work-6786749


AREVA has extracted all of the solid uranium hexafluoride from Eurodif's George Besse I gaseous diffusion enrichment facility at the Tricastin nuclear site in France.

Date: Monday, 19 October 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscleanup-milestone-at-george-besse-i-4697256

The majority owner of the operator of the Georges Besse 2 uranium enrichment plant in Tricastin, southwest France, has finalized a loan of EUR 650 million over 10 years with a group of 10 banks.

Date: Monday, 30 June 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsareva-finds-finance-for-new-enrichment-plant-4305984